WHISPERS OF INSPIRATION

We heard the merits and demerits in our lamentations. We are aware of our deadly stereotypes nibbling at our progress.  We are aware of the benefits working together for the common good will inure to us, but we prefer the perks and expensive money from our colonial masters.  We are aware of the risk and toils our forefathers went through to get us here, but we appear to have betrayed their worthy cause. We live in the sunshine of our graceful wealth and yet we are the least beneficiary of these abundant gifts.  We're aware of our own failings and the forces that work against our efforts to integrate and stay united.  We are also aware of our own acts of petty politicking that are working against us.  It's a fact that our liberation struggle is still on and we have an arduous task to finish the unfinished agenda of our liberation.  As Robert Nestor Marley echoed in his Redemption Song, we all have a duty to "emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, none but our

We have a common background because we're the same people with different faces; We have established cults of an institution that perpetuate our progress but are we all living the values in our professed ideals?  In the context of who we are, where we are coming from and where we've got to in terms of where we're going, there's more room for improvement.  So long as our needs keep changing; So long as our aspirations keep changing; We need a sustainable progressive plan to revolutionize our economy, our agriculture, our education and our mental attitude, that should inform the way we do politics in every sphere.  Our politics should move from the petty divisive approach it has used over these years and be allowed to breathe some refreshing revival into our focus and thinking.  May God be our help in developing lasting values that will make our economy resilient and progressive. Remain Blessed. 🙏🏿 First Published on 24th May 2016. ©KYB ✍🏿 24/05/21